• Where do Children Learn Social Skills, At School or at Home?

    Research shows, and professionals agree, that having social interest and developing social skills are necessary for long term social-emotional health.  However, there seems to be a common misconception that schools and ‘peer modeling’ are responsible for a child’s social skill development.  While that would make everyone’s lives easier, it is simply not true. Social skills…

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  • Why we must work on Milestrones 1, 2, and 3 all together

  • Your child’s Autism Diagnosis is dynamic

    When a parent or caregiver hears the words “Your child has autistic spectrum disorder” from a psychologist or physician, it can often sound to that parent or caregiver like a life sentence. They believe that their child will always be autistic. That autism diagnosis, however, is dynamic not static. What does it mean that your…

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